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by David McEvoy

A Guide to Business Statistics

An accessible text that explains fundamental concepts in business statistics that are often obscured by formulae and mathematical notation

A Guide to Business Statistics offers a practical approach to statistics that covers the fundamental concepts in business and economics. The book maintains the level of rigor of a more conventional textbook in business statistics but useAn accessible text that explains fundamental concepts in business statistics that are often obscured by formulae and mathematical notation

A Guide to Business Statistics offers a practical approach to statistics that covers the fundamental concepts in business and economics. The book maintains the level of rigor of a more conventional textbook in business statistics but uses a more stream­lined and intuitive approach. In short, A Guide to Business Statistics provides clarity to the typical statistics textbook cluttered with notation and formulae.

The author--an expert in the field--offers concise and straightforward explanations to the core principles and techniques in business statistics. The concepts are intro­duced through examples, and the text is designed to be accessible to readers with a variety of backgrounds. To enhance learning, most of the mathematical formulae and notation appears in technical appendices at the end of each chapter. This important resource:

Offers a comprehensive guide to understanding business statistics targeting business and economics students and professionals Introduces the concepts and techniques through concise and intuitive examples Focuses on understanding by moving distracting formulae and mathematical notation to appendices Offers intuition, insights, humor, and practical advice for students of business statistics Features coverage of sampling techniques, descriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, and regression Written for undergraduate business students, business and economics majors, teachers, and practitioners, A Guide to Business Statistics offers an accessible guide to the key concepts and fundamental principles in statistics....more

Community Reviews

This is a good intro to statistics, though it would be hard to use as a stand-alone book. It doesn't really reference any tools, so it would be best used with a complementary textbook that includes exercises that you would work through in Excel or Python or whatever.

The books is reasonably easy to read and the explanations and examples are pretty clear. I'll admit that I gave up on the last few chapters (on regression) and just skimmed them, though. I need to come back to them at some point aftThis is a good intro to statistics, though it would be hard to use as a stand-alone book. It doesn't really reference any tools, so it would be best used with a complementary textbook that includes exercises that you would work through in Excel or Python or whatever.

The books is reasonably easy to read and the explanations and examples are pretty clear. I'll admit that I gave up on the last few chapters (on regression) and just skimmed them, though. I need to come back to them at some point after I've reviewed another textbook or two and gotten a better handle on all the stuff leading up to that.

So, anyway, this would be a good book for a college course that also included practical exercises and other supplemental material. It's probably not the best book to read if you're going into statistics on your own, cold....more